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Friday, 8 March 2013

Chernobyl - part 3, Posters, Pictures, Propaganda, Graffiti

Walking the streets of Pripyat, Chernobyl and someone else has obviously been before you.

After the looters that crept in during and after the fall of the Iron Curtain came the explorers and the graffiti artists.

Some is just scrawl, such as is found the Azure swimming pool.

Some are shadowy figures on buildings, that can be seen through the trees

Some figures playfully poke fun or tease the person who dares explore the city.

Aside from the peeling paint of the usual city signs are the motivational and propaganda signs and artwork one would, as a Westerner, rightly or wrongly expect to find in a city in a Soviet Union time bubble.

"unauthorised entry is prohibited"

Thankfully the graffiti is minimal, just enough to catch your eye, the Soviet era art a gentle reminder of the fact the your standing in previous empire of the Soviet Union, as well as the nuclear disaster zone that is Pripyat, Chernobyl